The Dell PowerEdge 2900 server is built with flexibility in mind. You can choose from tower or 5U rack chassis options with hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drives and several optical devices and tape products, for up to 6.0TB12 of internal storage. The system also features six I/O slots. Because Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) and PERC 5/i integrated controller utilize dedicated daughtercard slots, all six I/O slots are available for expandability. You have the option of adding up to four dual-embedded Gigabit Network Interface Cards (NICs) and two dual-channel storage interface devices for maximum growth potential.
Helpful features include:
Hot-plug redundant power supplies and hard drives, plus multiple SAS RAID options for easy maintinence & high reliability.
A TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) helps deliver greater network throughput and efficiency by offloading the TCP/IP processing to a dedicated processor, freeing up the main system processor in web-based applications or when using iSCSI.
To help accelerate diagnosis and repair of any failures, the LCD panel behind the system bezel displays error codes and text messages further detailing the problem.
Dell PowerEdge 2900 Technical Specifications
Form Factor:
5U Rack-Mmount or Tower Server
Processors:
Up to two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 sequence processors at up to 3.0GHz
Up to two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5100 sequence processors at up to 3.0GHz
Chipset:
Intel 5000X
Memory:
256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB/4GB Fully Buffered DIMMs (FBD) in matched pairs
533MHz or 667MHz; 12 FBD sockets for support up to 48GB
Operating Systems:
Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows® Essential Business Server 2008
Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 SP2, x86/x64 (x64 includes Hyper-VTM )
Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 R2, x64 (includes Hyper-VTM v2)
Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008
Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
Drive controller:
SAS 5/i(base): 4 port SAS controller with ARM966 processor(does not support RAID)
RAID controller:
Optional PEC 4e/DC (dual-channel PCI Express RAID controller);
Optional PERC 5/E Adapter for external RAID storage
Drive Bays:
Standard internal hard drive bays support up to eight 3.5" SAS or SATA hot plug hard drives
Flexbay support for up to two 3.5" hot-plug drives or full height tape device
Peripheral bay support for two half-height devices (tape drive plus one optional CD-ROM, optional DVDROM or Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM); optional 3.5" floppy drive bay.
Maximum Internal Storage:
Up to 3.0TB
Hard Drives:
73GB , 146GB and 300GB (3.5") 10K RPM hot-plug SAS hard drives
36GB , 73GB and 146GB (3.5") 15K RPM hot-plug SAS hard drives
80GB , 160GB , 250GB and 500GB (3.5"), 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive
NIC:
Dual embedded Broadcom® NetXtreme IITM 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NIC with fail-over and load balancing
The Dell PowerEdge 2900 server is built with flexibility in mind. You can choose from tower or 5U rack chassis options with hot-plug SAS or SATA hard drives and several optical devices and tape products, for up to 6.0TB12 of internal storage. The system also features six I/O slots. Because Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) and PERC 5/i integrated controller utilize dedicated daughtercard slots, all six I/O slots are available for expandability. You have the option of adding up to four dual-embedded Gigabit Network Interface Cards (NICs) and two dual-channel storage interface devices for maximum growth potential.
